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LOVE AT LAST. " Why will you not give up thia mad sebeme of becoming ft public singer? You know I love you, Daisy, and in two years I shall come into my fortune. Until then we can manage to get along if vou marry me." " I cannot break up the plana your lamily hive made for you. You must go •broad and study as arranged. If, when you rclura- " " Never 1 " he said, savagely. " Choose betwetn me and this profession!" " I have chosen," she said, with dignity, and so Francis Mayburn left his cousin, Daisy Stanley, feeling very angry at her â-  determination. Two years'aflerwards they met again. She wag with his uncle, Col. Mays, whom he had not seen in year Mrs. Mays introduced them. Dr. Mayburn ofE^rs his hand, bat Daisy does not see it. She was looking past him at Fred Mays, who was elbowing his way to Miss Stan- ley's side. Mrs. Mays brought her to con- sciouauess, however, by saying : " Daisy, my dear, do you not see Dr. Mayburo's hand ?" Then she laid her fingers in his, coldly, •8 any stranger might have done. That night at the hall, as she came down to dinner, she caught sight of Dr. Mayburn in the drawing-room with a kid glove in his hands. He thrust it hastily in his pocket on seeing her. " So yon found my kid glove," she said, indiilerently. •• Thank you." And she reached out her hand for it. But Dr. May- bum, instead of giving the glove, said : " Will you not allow me to keep it, Daisy ?" The name was pronounced, oh, so tenderly. She opened her dark, dreamy eyes in astonishment, and speaking in the third person, replied ; " Dr. Mayburn is mis- taken in Miss Stanley. In all the years of her pablic life," and she emplasized the word public, " no gentleman ever oefore dared to take such a liberty." He put the glove silently into her hana. " F'orgive me, ' he said, kindly ; " I sec I have no longer any right to ask a favor of you." Just then Hose Mays and three or four other yeung girls came dancing into the room and the conversation was broken oH. Presently the gentlemen followed and din- ner was announced. Col. Mays took Daisy out, as his favorite, and placed her at bis right hand. Dr. Mayburn led out Mrs. Mays, and the rest followed iu order. After dinner others came iu, a score and more, all young, anj there was a dance and then a supper, and the merry party was kept up till the small hours of the morning. In all that time Dr. Mayburn had little or no chance to talk to Daisy again, so surrounded was she with admirers. He could dance with Kose Mays or anyboiiy bat Daisy. She was always engaged. Noticing this at last, good Mrs. Mays interfered and said, half laughingly, half earnestly : " It isn't fair, gentlemen, for you to monopolize Miss Stanley. I'r. Mayburn has tried iu vain to dance just one set with her. Some of you ought to give way to him, as he is a stranger." " Oh, never mind my wishes, Mrs. Mays. IMoeaa't matter in the leaat," the doctor interposi-d, embarrassed, and hardly know- ing what he said. D»i9y overheard him. however. "Of course not, dcvtor," she replied, coolly. " Yet we all commend yourself- Bacriticiug spirit and laudable ambitiou in askiHg to dance with a public singer." It was au ill-bretl thing to say, and Miss Stanley knew it. But she meant to shock Dr. Mayburn. The past was very vivid in her mind to-night, just as it was in his, and sho meant to be revenged. Fred whirled her away in a ma^iy wait/., and the doctor stcKxi back, gnawing bis mustache in itndisguised chagrin. But only for a moment. Concealing bis mortiticatiou under a gay smile, he led Kose Mays out, and they, too, were scon going round and round iu perfect time to the throbbing, sorrowful sweetness of "The Beautiful Blue Danube." Daisy saw it, and a new feeling came over her, a feeling of angry pain, tho pain of jealousy. " .Vfter all, he doesn't care," she thought, wearily. 'â-  He despises me because 1 have worked for a livelihood." For, you see. she loved l>r. Mayburn as fervently as ever. She felt she would break down if sho re- mained. There was a little boudoir tiuite at the other end of the house, where she knew she would be luidislurbed, and thither she tied for refuge. .\ large bay window almost tilled up one end of this apartmeiii. It was a beautiful moonlight mght, and, the curtains being drawn, the little room was flooded with elTulgence. Daisy knelt down on a rag, and, leaning on the seat, looked out. " Oh." she thought, " what iwrfect peace is there '. U 1 could only be like that." Her goldeu hair glit- tered in the moonlight and her dark eyes were full of appealing pathos. Tears came. She almost broke down. She wiiHHl the tears from her eyes reso- lutely, however. " Oh, pitiless, pitiless moon, cold and unsympathiziug !" she cried. "Do >ou ever heed the griefs you witness, the hearts that break before you.'" A step made her start. She recognized it at once and sprang to her feet. , , "Daisy," said a voice, full of cn\otiou, ' beside her, " after all these years will you not forgive me ? Have you no pity .' Over- look what the prejudiced Doy said. Be at least just to the repentant man." She looked at him, half incredulously for a moment. The nest sho was in his A Hl'MAN 3AAGNET. An Infant Child to Whote Finger Tipi Articles uf Metal AtUierr. Late in Angust last, while taking a vaca- tion in a coBntry town, I heard of a case that was causing considerable discnssion and wonderment among the people. Lovers of the mysterious, who are always ready to attribute any manifestation at all peculiar to supernatural agencies, were indulging in various wise speculations as to the true nature of the case. The child is termed a "human magnet" by the believers in and practisers of magnetic rubbings, while the Spiritualists declare the child a chosen medium. My curiosity became aroused and I asked permission to see this wonderful prodigy. Permission was granted and I saw the child at twocifferenttimes, making my visits some days apart. I found a pretty, delicate child, Dolly C, aged three and one-half years, an only child, blonde, with a pale and rather waxy complexion. Her manner of speech and conduct were characterized by a womanly grace much in advance of her tender years. Last Feb- ruary the phenomenon I described was first noticed. While playing with some spoons the mother was surprised to see her arranging them on her nnger tips, where they hung with perfect ease. She will place the palmar surface of the linger tips in the concavity of the spoon-bowl near the end, and lift from the holder, one by one, without otherwise K>uching them, until a spoon is suspended from each tinger tip. If the spoons do not strike too violently against each other she will carry them about the room withcut dropping them. The s^xKins will adhere to the nose and chin as they do on the lingers. I exajnined the case in various ways. F'irst I tried four teaspoons with a magnet ; one pure silver, one pewter, one triple plated and one single plated or washed. The pure silver or pewter spoons were not iuiluenced by the magnet ; the heavier plated was only partially raised, while the washed spoon was raised entirely clear of the table. I carried these four spoons with me, for the child to exercise her anomalous power of prehensioa upon. Kach 0i.e wassu3p<.nded with equal case eieept the one of pure silver. This one was lighest in weight, and the bowl was considerably tlatter than any of the other three. Bat ' after arranging it upon her linger a few times she succeeded in making it " stick. ' Asking her to put two fingers under the spoon-lwwls, I found a very appreciable resistancein taking it oiT. The spoons would hang from the tip of the nose and chin with as much securitv as from the lingers. Thinking the adherence might be due to an excessive clamminess of the skin I tested its surface with my own linger tips. Not discovering any. and to make sure I was not deceived by my own sense of tonch, I had the bands, nose and chin carefully washed with soap and water and dried with a warm towel. I found no perceivable difference in the adhesiveness. The child could not pick up a steel needle, that is so sensitive to the magnet, nor would a penny •â-  stick" to the lingers, chin or nose. I could discover nothing unusual in the shape of the finger tips. The skin was soft and velvety to the touch and I could be sure of clamminess nowhere except I'll the pinna. The hands and feet were wjrm to the touch when I saw her, and her mother states that she is not often troubled with cold feet or hands. The little patient's mother also told me that her sister's daughter, a young lady of 10 years of age and "always sick," as she expressed it, manifests the same singular power. This case I did not see, but have no reason to doubt the lady's statement, as she and her whole family are known to be truthful and honest. I have been thus particular in giving all the available points in the family history of the case, hoping thereby some light might be thrown u^ion the singular phenomtinon.â€" Z>r. A'. II. ICocl tnthfilrdi- iM.' Kepvrtir. EGYPTIAif SLAVE GIRLS. A Cyeloue iu Thorolil. Yesterday, while business was proceed- iag iu its usual course at McCloary >v McLean's mills, a whirlwind suvldenly picked up a dozen inch boards, fourteen and sixteen inches wide, from a pile, carried them fully forty feet, and dashed thetu against the side of the planing- mill, some of them entering a window, which was torn entirely oat, not a bar remaining. â€"noryld l\ifl. I'rofcssor Rogers, of Washington, has just mathematically proved that the dynamic power of a pound of gooil steam coal is eiiuivalent to the work of one man for a day. that thrre tons will represent his labor for twenty years, and that oue 8<[uarc mile of a four-toot steam will effect as much as one million meu can do in twenty years. A KeiueUy for UuroK. Many remedies at one time or another have been proposed for the surgical condi- tion following the application of excessive heat to the body, and, while some of these are of value, still all are more or less un. satisfactory. The alleviation of the pain and suffering attendant upon burns is one of the most important points in the case toward which the surgeon directs his eiYorts. The shock from this cause alone IS sufficient often times to produce death, and always is great. Accidentally I re- cently discovered a remedy which is easily applied and e.xceedingly prompt iu its action. I was called in some haste to a little child, about three weeks ago, who was badly burned about the hands and face, from falling on a hot stove. The burns were deep, the pain excessive and the shock very considerable. I sent to the drug store for a mixture of lime water, olive oil and carMic acid. While waiting for this. 1 prepared to give the child a hypodermic in- jection of morphine, with which to allay the agony, which was so great that convul- sions seemed imminent. While I was getting ready to do this, I espied upon the shelf a bottle of pinus canadensis (color- less). Kememberiug its wonderful soothing iuthience iu acute inflammation, I at once concluded to try it. Taking a corner of a soft handkerchief, I rapidly painted the injured parts, when, like magic, the pain ceaaeil. You can well imagine my surprise and delight at the result. I liirected a camel's hair brush to be purchased, and had the mother make free applications, and the case had no more treatment, save a little iodoform ointment later on. Since this I have tried it in several cases, both slight and severe, aud with the same de- lightful results.â€" -Y. V. Mtdical Jounuil. Kfl'ect on the Vatleut. Yoang Physician (pompously)â€" Yes. I've called at Mr. Brown's three times a day for a week. Ho is a very sick man. Miss Smith. Miss Smith â€" He must be by this time. Little Bertha tries to Ited the cat some grajx's, aud on the cat refusing them, tells her that she will have them again to- morrow. " But. Bertha dear, " says her mamma, " cats don't eat grapes. •â-  Neither do 1 eat spinach," Bertha retorted " and yet 1 always get it again." The Los Angeles real estate boom has oollapsed and the boomers are sawing wood and doing other otld jobs. Several thousand promising sub-divisions have relapsed into a state of pastoral quietness. When the crop of mortgages isharvcsteel the laud will ' bo planted in potatoes, as usual. Cowparint; Them With English Drudges â€" CIrciusian MaldservanU Said to Lead PleaAanter Lives Tlian Their Mure Highly CivUizeU Sitters. The Ecglish drudge rises eirly and goes to bed late, working eight or twelve hours a day, either in her miserable garret or in a huge manufacturing hive. Pinched with hanger and cold, worn out with labor, ex- posed to temptation and degradation, her joyless life stretches behind her acd before her, with no pleasures to look back upon, no hope to look forward to. The wages she earns, those wages which proudly separates her from the slave, are barely suniciect to keep body and soul together, till at last the body gives way or the soul revolts. Then comes the inevitable end, and a verdict of " Death from starvation ' or •â-  Found drowned ' closes the scene. The Soudani girl is taken from her parental hut of sticks and mad and sold to a respectable family or perhaps a very rich one. In the first case, she will probably 'oe alone ; in the second, she will nad others like 'nerself. She represents so much capital invested, and is looked after with equivalent care. She is a servant whose wages have, been paid twenty years in advance. It is true they have not been paid to her, but that is all the better for the girl. She is well housed and weD fed. and wants for nothing. She is immediately provided with decent clothes and set to house-work. She has charge ct the family w^ashing and cleaning, and of the kitchen, and generally fulfills these duties much better ttian a native paid setvans would do. She is under uo special restraint, accom paaies her mistress shopping or Joes the marketing herself, and jjoseips her fill with the neighbors as she hangs out the linen on the house top. or sweeps the door step. Her worS is by no means hard, and after the fashion of Egypt, where every man is a brother and every woman a sister, she is looked upon by the family quite as one of themselves. Speaking from personal obser- vation, we may affirm that the black women are almost mvariably treated with the utmost kindness and indulgence, and are often spoiled like children by the too great good nature of their masters or mistresses. They constitute a very merry, happy por- tion of the population, and it is seldom oue can find a black girl withont an infectious broad grin on her pohsb«d face. If she chooses to marry, as she often does, with her owner's consent, she receives a dower, and goes forth a " free ' woman in the letter, though often, as she finds tohercost. a greater bond slave m the spirit than m the days of her servitude. Now let us go a step higher in the social, scale, and place the middle class English girl, compelled to work for her liwag, side by side with the Circassian, aud we shall find again that all material advantages, of which alone we speak, ire not on the side of the free. The Circassian is a little fair haired lass from a far village in Turkestan (pace Dr. Taaueri. Uer father is a robber or a herdsman, and she wdl perhaps bo a prmcess. The I'rince Charming, whom the governess is always looking for, but who never comes, is a very strong potentiality in the future of the white slave girl. One day. a bearded and veneHiSle old Turk arrives from Stambcul. and picks out our little girl. She is not carried away by force, but ^old is counted cut, and she is perched on a mule, and bids good by for- ever to barbarism. The purchaser takes every imaginable pains with her education and ap(iearance. Sh« is taught to read and write, to dance aud sing, to embroider in silk and play the guitar. and farther initiated into all the mysteries of the toilet. When she has grown into budding womanhood the dealer lets bis best customers know that he pos- sesses a treasure almost priceless, and ail her virtues and beauties are detailed with tbo usual Oriental exaggeration. Finally. some royal prmcess or rich pasha's wife expresses a wish to see her. and extra care having been taken with her bath and dress she 18 presented for inspection. She gives amples of her accomplishments, musical, gymnastic and otherwise. Accepted, she is at once clothed with a rich silK dress, and receives a preseut of a necklace or bracelet as an earnest of favor before she joins her fellow slaves. Beyond assisting her mistress in the toilet, accompanying her in her drives, and handing her ccfifee and cigarettes, she has little to dc. She is an ornamental appendage rather than a servant. A household such as one of these Circassians would enter would contain a crowd of men servants and black women to do the work, and perhaps ten to twenty other girls like herself, and a very gay time they have together. The great ladies are very fend of exchanging visits and giving musical entertainments, at all of which some of the slave girls at- tend. When she goes out with her mistress in the natty little brougham, almost the only dilTereuce between the lady and the maid lies in the former ta'Kiug the right hand seat. The girl is dressed in a way to do credit to the house she belongs to. and often sparkles with jewels, chatting freely with everybody at the places she visits, and enjoying herself as fully as any of the emancipated. When the time comes for her to bo marrietl, her owner chooses a suitable husband aud gives a rich dower, and many of the marriages of slave girls eclipse in magnificence those of even the wealthier classes. The erstwhile bare- footed, ragged little Circassian fromTurco- mau's Land is now a princess or pasha's wife, with slaves of her own ; but she would laugh if you suggested to her that there was anythiug degrading iu their posi- tion or had been in her own.â€" Lo'iJoh S'lturdaii Rciific. NEW COIFFflUt. Graceful Style of Hair Dressing Smmtl aftvr UrH. Cl«velaQd. There has been so little variety in the way of coiffure during late years that hair dressing in an artistic sense has very nearly become a lost art, causing the hand of the professional hair dresser to well nigh " lose its cunning, " hence the announcement of an innovation introducing new and grace- ful styles in this essentially important part in the toilet of every lady will be received with more than ordinary interest by otir fair readers. Bangs straight, bangs crimped, under various catching names, bangs in every de- gree of puiiinesa or the reverse, from the quiet bit of fringe just touching the fore- head, to the hea\7, the bristly or other- wise coEspicuous, have had a long day and promiie in a modified form to continue in favor. But the simply arranged back knot so much in vogue of late, together with the style of catting off the back hair, is going out, in fact i: may be said to have gone out, and in being replaced with far more elegant form of a new and by coi3ure. A woman's " and since the crowning glory is her hair," earUest times the art of dressing the hair has occupied the time, attention and ingenuity of women, a pleas- ing and gratifying pistimt; from which they have been debarred during the rather pro- tracted reign of no hair, so to speak, or at most the easily arranged bang and Grecian knot at the back. The new coiffure named in honor of Mrs. Cleveland andwhich bears her name is the most graceful of the several novelties lately introduced and will tjeyond all doubt become the most popular. While fulfilling its mission of displaymg the hair to the t^st advantage at the back, it ad. mits of any arrangement of the front hair that may suit the features and the taste of the wearer, and can be worn with any style of hat. This mode consists simply of tnree strands of long hair curled about four inches at the ends and arranged as follows : Twist all the hair on top of the head almost close to the forehead, place a front piece dressed in loose riuify rings, or in any style which the wearer may fancy, over thetwisl so as to raise it high towards the crown, then take one strand of the three into which the long hair most be divided, make into a plain knot aud place in the centre so that the curled ends just reach the neck; the other two strands are then twisted loosely in the feral of a â- â€¢ rope twist " and wound around the knot iu the centre just above the curls near the neck and so shaped as to give a long and narrow efect to the coitfure. The curled or crimped ends of the "rcpe twisted " strands wiil by this ar- ranijement be brought to the top cf the coiiTure and mingle with the curU of the front piece, which completes the head dress. For full dress occasions the Cleveland coiffare is in admirable keeping, as it ad- mits of jewelled puis, ai^uette, etc.. which are so effective in artificial light, and can be a^^ easily formed with an ordinary switch and a few pin curls as with one's own hair. HABU TIMES FOU CBILDKEN. Farentj* Who Keep Crying " Dout I>» This " anil â- â-  Don't Do That. " It is as natural to a child to be happy as it is to a tisb to swim, says a writer in the March number of " 'Woman. " But for this they need a certain amoimt ot "letting alone.' It is a great mistake for parents to hamper their children with foolish re- strictions. We pity the little B's, our next door neighbor's children, from the bottom of our heart. There is a picket fence in front of the house and they are scarcely allowed to go near it lest they should climb and hurt themselves. They cannot »ditnh a treejcr the same reason. They may not skate or swim or have a gun. The conM- qaence of this training is that their parents have made cowards of them all with the exceptmn of Uttle Bessie, who is the most darlir^little mischief that ever wore a sim bonnet, and she has learned to be deceitftil and plays all her mad pranks well out of sight of her parents' eye. We caught her the other day walking the railing of a brid^ that crossed the track of a railroad a htm- dr«d feet below. The railing was not a foot wide and she triumphantly told us that she had walked it while the train was pasa- icg under. It was enough to make one shudder. Don't fancy your boy is made of dass. Grant a reasonable request and let him feel that when you refuse it is for his own good. Between the Jellybys and the Gradgrinds of life children have a hard time of it. The yoangest child needs some sort of igreeable occupation and a certain amount of physical freedom. There is nothing more painful to yoang people than to feel that life is one dull routine ajid that â- â-  nothing; svtr happens, ' as we once heard a disconsolate lad remark. SliKhtly off the Key " In regard to what I shall eat, "observed the Boston youug lady, pleasantly, yet with dignity, as she regardeil the dish before her, " I never take anybody's ipf-'duit." " 1 told you, James," said the embar- rassed hostess, a St. Louis lady. " that Miss llowjames wasn't ready tor mince pie yet." To a request ot the cloiuent Dr, Hawks for an increase of salary, giving as his rea- son that his family expenses were increas- ing, an olhcer of the church replied: " Do not trouble yourself, the I ord has promiseil that He will' care for the young ravens when thoy cry." " I know that, ' said the witty minister, " but nothing is said about he yoang Hawks." The Siuallelt People of the World. Frof. Flower, of the London Natural History Museum, recently delivered a lec- ture on the -Vkkas. the diminutive tribe of black people in Central Airica, discovered by Schweinturth in ijTO. The Akkas he believes to be the smallest people on earth, their height usuayy ranging at maturity from ( feet 10 inches to 4 feet .5} inches. The typee most nearly allied to them are the natives of the Andaman Islands and the bushmen of South Africa. It is possi. ble that th'' Akkas gave origin to the stories of pigmies so common la the writings of Gre«k historians, and whose habitations were often placed near the soorces of the ^'•'' . The name Akka, by which Bchweinfur.h says thetribe now call themselves, has singularly enough, been read by Mariette I'asha by the side of the portrait of a dwarf in a monument of the ancient Egyptian Kinpire. A UEADSMAN'S EXFERTXESS, Tukins Off :t Criuilnul'* â-  Tup " While He Wa* Flavins Nine Fin*. We have observed several wonderful stories of late respecting the skill cf the Chinese executioners, who. it is said, can strike off the heads of their victims so skilfully that the poor fellows themselves never discover their loss until a moment or two after they are dead. We recall to mind, however, the story of a German execationer who far surpassed the Chinese in profes- sional dexterity. I'pon one occasion it happened that a criminal had a singular itching to play nine pins, and he implored permission to play once more at his favorite game before he died. Then, fas said, he would submit to his fate withotit a murmur. The judge, thinking tliere could be no harm in humoring him, granted his last prayer, and upon arriving at the place of execution he found everything prepared for the game, the pins being set up and the bowls all ready. He commenced his favorite sport w^ith enthusiasm. After awhile the sheriff, observing that he showed no inclination to desist, made a sign to the executioner to strike the fatal blow while he stooped for a bowl. The executioner did so, but with such ex.iuisite dexterity that the culprit did not notice or feel it. He thoucht, indeed, that a cold breath of air was biowicg on his ne^k, and drawmg himself back with a shrug, his head dropped forward into his hands. Uo naiarally supposed that it was a bowl which he had grasped, aud. sei..^ing it firmly, rolled it at the pma. .All of them fell, and the bead was heard to exclaim, as it rebounded from the fartherwall : " Hur- rah I I've won the game.' â€" ChuaUtcn' The l'Iuiut>erwhosto|>|>eda Kat Hole. A few years ago John M. Dowling buUt for his own use a handsome three-story and basement rtsidence at 2\H) Huron street. Winning a ten thousand dollar bet on the presidential election, b-..- put it into a barn. for which he has little ose, save as a menu ment to his good judgment. He then set about filling his house with everything that money could purchase iu the way of furniture, and the latest appliances for utilitarian and sanitary purposes, and had just settled down to enjoy life when one Jay the servant girl reported a rat in tne basement. The plumber was sent for and given orders to stop up the rat hole without regard to expense. Ue did so. and yester- day handed in his bill. It called for '•l.WS..*"'. Hi had found it necessary to completely overhaul and change the sewer- ago and drainage system of the premises to keep ont that rat.â€" C'li .ij^o Titius. » tlightaii(ler.« a* Soldiern, If you depopulate the Highlands, said Scott, where are you to find your High- lander in case of war ' The same question is askoii by a Highland officer. Ue says : " For thirty seven years 1 have com- mandetl and associated with Highland soldiers. But of them all I uever found au eijaal to the man from the Lewis for a combination of martial aptitude, sublime courage, childlike obedience. In a word, they are meutally as well as physically the finest soldiers I have overseen intheconrse of a life which has take^i me into all the capitals of the world and some of its hot. test campaigns. These are the men for whom expatriation is proiK>scd. ' Grander weaivns for the defence of a country, ' says the Highland officer, "God never gave to anv rulers." â€" Kdinbur'jh Kvenit'i .V-ir*. A I'oint for Feiiiliiiue Keforuier?t. It takes the skins ot three seals to make a sealskin sacque and boa. And yet the dear, delightful feminine reformers, who eschew the feathers of our forest songsters on their bonnets, will rob three seals of their com- fortable winter scats and leave them shiv- ering in an icy climate that they themselves may go warmly clad. â€" Hujaio Ej^yrtss. A Breeiit Club Set-To, F'irst clubman (heatedly)â€" All 1 have to say is that I consider yon a puppy. Second diito (coollyl-K that were the case I could take the first pri.ie at the dog show, aud that's more than you can say. F'irst man- How so .' Second dittoâ€" Vou lack the necessary pedigree and breeding. A !«tory of Lord Co4-kburu. Lord Cockburn s looks, tones, language and manner were al.tays such as to make oue think that he believed every wcrd ho eaid. On one occasion, before he was raised to the bench, when defending a murderer, although he failed to convince the judge, and the jurymen of the innocence of his chent, yet he convmced the murderer himself that he was innocent. Sentence of death was pronounced, and the day of exe- cution fixed for, say, the 'JOth cf .January. .Vs Lord Cockburn was passmg the con- demned man. the latter peiied him by the sown saying . • 1 have not not justice, Mr. Cockburn ; I have not got justice." To this the advocate coolly repUed : ' Per- haps not, but you'll get it on the 'iOth of •Tanuarv. 'â€" CAumi^rj A'uow.'. The l..ite«t Fnd in FhulogrHphft. " The girls are having their pictures taken in threes, ' said a photographer the other day. " 'What is that for, ' 1 aske»i. " Nothing but awhim, an English whim, maybe. The three daughters ot the Frm- cess of Wales are pictured on oue card, and possibly that started the craze. There are more orders just now for groups of threes than for single pictures. The dear girls pose iu the prettiest attitude their hands can be coaxed into, and the latest thing in albums is a collection of these groups. Bunches of buds, they call them three of a kind, is the name that presents itself to me."â€" i're.'ii j Sac York ItlUr. The angry ocean has eaten away so much ot Coney Island that the water comes up to the veranda ot the Brighton Hotel, and that immense structure is to be moved back, 135 trucks running on a great number of tracks have been placed under the building lor the purpose. " Will you love mo when I'm old.'" sang the ancient soubrette. " How old .' " came in a shrill voice from the galltry. The singer did not reply, but theaudiencosmiled when the curtain dropped showing a cen- tury plant in full bloom. A New York school teacher received the following note excusing a pupil's absence : " Miss : It is not neseter for my darter to come to scuJe, for she don't loan nuthin' this is the six scale she has ben to she mites well stay to home." The morphia habit among women is much more common in Fhiladelphia, says the 2'i .ic< of that city, than many suppose. Even in the late severe weather women, young and old, could be seen hurrying to the drug stores and iu most cases the only meeliciue they were after was morphia in its different forms. The most fashionable method ot indulgence is by hypodennio iujex'tion, aud some of the syringes used are gold and silver mounted and both ex- l>ensive and elaborate. Kinggcld Cooper, the American who was arrested iu Baris for pissing a forged cheijue on the London A Westminster Bank, was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.